Time spent on the table during meals or when dining is also a time to catch up with family members and friends. And this means another perfect time for you to listen and learn new words, and of course phrases when learning to speak Ilocano. To be able to give you a start, and be able to familiarize and understand some if not all words and phrases that you'll hear when dining with Ilocano speakers, here are Ilocano meal time phrases for you.
As always, I have included the Filipino/Tagalog counterparts for my fellow Filipinos who prefer learning Ilocano with Filipino/Tagalog for comparison. As a start, the following Ilocano phrases are the ones you'll most likely hear from the host. I thought of adding them so you will be able to understand these as well.
Now, as a guest/visitor, the following are useful Ilocano phrases during meal time to compliment your host or the food along with other phrases you can use when eating with Ilocano speakers.
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While the mealtime phrases take the spot light, we all had our fare share or being in a friend's home around breakfast, lunch, or dinner time. So I have added some phrases below just in case you're looking for a way on how to casually and politely refuse an invitation to eat in Ilocano.
Considering that you'll be speaking or responding to someone within your age group, here's the Ilocano phrases you can say to refuse an invitation while in their home.
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But how would you respond politely to an elderly or someone older, let's say your friend's parent/s or older siblings? This can be done by using honorifics and by adding apo, a word equivalent of po in Tagalog. Let's have the first one above, to politely refuse to your friend's grandmother/grandfather, "Agyamanak, ngem nabusogak pay apo." To refuse an older sibling while still showing respect, "Agyamanak ngem nabusogak pay manang/manong."
Manang is the uquivalent of ate and manong for kuya in Filipino/Tagalog which are used when addressing older siblings. Use these just in case you're speaking to your friend's older siblings to be polite.
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